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Maxximilian Seijo, Andr\\xe9s Bernal and Scott Ferguson plunge into the latest Disney Plus streaming series, Loki (2021), as part of their ongoing examination of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). For all its deliciously queer aesthetic & political potentials, they argue, Loki represents another MCU tragedy about the promise & perpetual failure of social contract theory, and fascism\\u2019s seductive exploitation of that failure. In doing so, they critique how the show\\u2019s neoliberal and tacitly Deleuzean conception of time as \\u201cunivocal difference\\u201d problematically pits care against heterogeneity in a zero-sum trade-off between fascism and democracy. At the same time, they suggest that Loki\\u2019s polyvalent and often-campy aesthetics nevertheless express new longings for alternative modes of questioning and organizing the world.

Music: \\u201cYum\\u201d from \\u201cThis Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me\\u201d EP by flirting.
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